Thursday, April 4, 2013

A Terrible Thing to Do to a Flower

Napowrimo day 4, poem 4/30. Today's prompt is to write a poem based on one of Iain M. Banks' spaceship names. I started with "Preposterous Appendage" from the @cultureshipname Twitter account but ended up changing it to a title from Jeanette Winterson's The Powerbook. Poem based on Lady Gaga's "You & I" video. Still figuring out what to do with the pronouns, but hopefully it isn't too confusing.

A Terrible Thing to Do to a Flower

She's never kissed herself before,
never knew her lips
to be so yielding. She feels
the inertia between her legs,
smiles lewdly at the girl
she's kissed, the painted girl
who looks like her. Her palms
itch for contact, to slap
the imposter and leave
a bruise. Bitch.
The packing tape digs
into her breast, the prosthetic
craning for light,
wanting.

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